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AKWESI AMANKWA EVANS
V.
KOJO PREMPEH

(2016) JELR 108046 (HC)

High Court 19 Jul 2016 Ghana
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- The plaintiff filed a lawsuit against the defendant seeking a declaration of ownership of a piece of land, a perpetual injunction to prevent interference with the land, damages for trespass, and recovery of possession. - The plaintiff cla

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Suit Number:SUIT NO. FAL/160/13
Judges:REBECCA N.S. SITTIE, J
Counsel:MR A. G. BOADU FOR THE PLAINTIFF NII AKWEI BRUCE-THOMPSON FOR THE DEFENDANT

JUDGMENT  

The Plaintiff issued a Writ of Summons and Statement of Claim against the  Defendant on 27th November, 2012 for the following reliefs:

1. A declaration that Plaintiff is the owner of the land described in the  schedule.  

2. Perpetual injunction restraining Defendant, his agents, servants and assigns from interfering with the land.  

3. Damages for trespass. 

4. Recovery of possession. 

PLAINTIFF’S CASE 

Plaintiff’s case is that he acquired the land in dispute in 1999 from the Head of  the Onamrokor Adain Family who are the owners of the land but no  documents were executed so the current Head of the Onamrokor Adain Family  Arthur Hammond Tetteh Quarcoo executed a lease in his favour. It is Plaintiff’s  case that the Defendant a mechanic, has without his consent encroached on  the land and erected a structure on it. Plaintiff described the land in the  schedule in his Statement of Claim 

Plaintiff also said in his evidence that he got the land from Jafro Larkai who  contested …

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